Toy telephone



Oct. 9, 1934. J CQNKLIN 1,975,893

TOY TELEPHONE Filed June 17, 1933 Patented Oct. 9, 1934 TOY TELEPHONE John H. Conklin, East Hampton, Court, as'signor to The Gong necticut East Hampton, Conn,

Bell Manufacturing Company,

a corporation of Con- Application June 17, 1933, Serial No. 676,314 12 Claims. (01. 46-46) is illustrated in the accompanymg drawing in which- Figure 1 is a front telephone.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same. Figure 3 is a top view.

view of my improved toy Figure 5' is a view on-enlarged scale in section on a plane denoted by the dotted line 5-5 of Fi 4. r

Figure 6 is a view in section on a plane denoted by the dotted line 6-6 of Fig. 4.

Figure '7 is a view in section on a planedenoted by the dotted line 7-'7 of Fig. 4.

Figure 8 is a view similar-to Fig. 4 but illus- ,'25 trating a lamp located within the drum which supports the buttons.

Figure 9 is a view on enlarged scale of a fragment of the device of Fig. 8 and illustrating the manner of attachment of a lamp within said drum. 7 Figure 10 is a view of a fragment ofomy improved toy telephonebut showing the lamp arranged to illuminate the calling buttons of transparent material and with a central button for illuminating the ligh It is the purpose of my present invention to provide a toy telephone resembling that type of a regular telephone wherein buttons or plungers are employed for the purpose of efiecting .40 telephonic connections with persons to boomversed with, the depression of the buttons or plungers also operating to create a noticeable effect that will aid in or lend to the amusement of the childish mind, and this effect may appeal '45 to the eye, to the ear, or to any other of'the senses, in the toy herein shown the effect produced appealing both to the eye and to the car,

as by a light or as by a sound. I

- In the accompanying drawing the numeral 10 denotes the base of my improved toy telephone,

11 a post rising therefrom, 12 a bracket attached to the top of the post, 13 a hand set of the socalled Frenclfor monophone type of telephone, and 14 generally a calling device mounted on .515 the base 10, all of the parts just described being I the post. .7 Figure 4 is a view in central vertical section.

plete the electric circuit from the sleeve conducmade to closely resemble similar parts of an ordifnary and regular telephone set.

The post 11 is hollow and .is removably secured to the base so that it may be readily removed,

any suitable means for securing this result be- '5? .ing employed, in the structure shown herein clips 15 extending from the bottom edge ofthe post on diametrically opposite sides thereof engaging through key hole openings 16 formed in the base, and as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawing. The opening within this .hollow post is freely accessible from its lower end so that a battery cell 17 may be readily inserted in said opening by pushing it ther'einto from the end of A spring terminal 18 is secured to the top of the base 10 and is insulated therefrom, a rivet or other suitable device, also insulated from the base, securing said terminal in place. A conductor 19, also insulated from the base, extends toward the front of the chamber within the base and supports at its free end a gong or hell 20 secured to a post 21 projecting downwardly from a hub 33 formed on theun'dersurface of the top of the base, and as shown in Fig. 4.. The end of .8 the conductor 19 is insulated from the post 21, the opening through which said post extends being large enough to prevent the conductor from touching the post. The post is insulated from the gong 20 by a sleeve 22 of insulating material. .85

A grid is mounted on the sleevev22, this grid comprising spring striker arms 23 radiating 'from the center of the grid and terminating in strikers 24 adapted to strike the gong20. r

A'drum 2-5 is secured to the top of the base 10 2 in any suitable manner, as by means of clips, and plungers'26 are mounted in the drumand in the plate forming the top of the base 10, each plunger having a button2'7 at its outer end by means of which the plunger .may be operated. Each 5 plunger overlies one ofthe arms 23 and a quick blow upon a plunger will cause a hammer to be forced against the gong toring the latter, When the hammer touches the gong this will also comtor 19 through the frame to the central contact point of an electric light bulb 28 and through the socket of said bulb and a conductor 29 to the terminal 30 of the battery 1'7. o

A window 31 is formed'in the front of the post 1. 11, this window comprising a pane 32 of any ,suitable transparent material extending surfi- ;ciently around the interior of the-post 11 to hold :it place, and when the battery is removed the pane maybe .sliddownwardlyto uncover the Jim opening for the removal and insertion of electric light bulbs.

In that form of the structure shown in Figs. 8 and 9 a lamp 34 is placed Within the recess 35 formed in the hub 33, the grid comprising the arms ,23 .being insulated from the hub 33 and the outer ends of the arms also bearing insulations 36 to insulate the grid from the stems or plungers 26. A dome 3'? is formed in the center of the drum 25 with a glass 38 through which light from the lamp 34 may shine.

In this form of the device when a button 27 is depressed contact between a-striker 24 and the gong will close the circuit through the conductor 19, post 21, central contact of the lamp, through the filament of the lamp to the shell or socket thereof and into the frame, andthence through the conductor 29 to a terminal of the battery.

In that form of the device shown in Fig. 10 the parts are generally arranged as hereinbefore described. The sounding device, however, is omitted and the lamp 39 is mounted within the chamber lin thebase 10 and on the bottom thereof. The calling buttons 40 are of transparent material so thatthey will transmit the rays of light from .the lamp 39, the latter being enclosed within the base so that the light will shine only through said buttons. A central button 41 is employed to press a conductor 42 from one terminal of the battery 17 into contact with a terminal 43 from the lamp 39, the stem of the button 41 being insulated from the conductor 42.

In this structure the battery 17 is grounded 1 on the post 11 as in the device of Fig- 8, and the conductor 42 being pressed into contact with the lterminal 43 the current passes from the bottom terminal of the battery through the conductor 42 and the terminal 43 to the shell of the lamp, through the filament thereof, and through the central lamp terminal 44 to the frame and from the frame to the other terminal ofv the battery .through the conductor 29, as shown in the device .of Fig. 8.

While I have illustrated and described herein .anelectric lamp as the means for denoting the manifestation or conspicuous result from pressing the buttons, yet, other means for producing the manifestations may be employed as within the spirit and intent of my invention, it being noted that when a button is pressed the bell is rung .and other manifestations also take place as a result.

While the manifestation, as an electric lamp, is shown herein in one instance as located in the post 11 and in another instance within the drum .25, I contemplate that the lamp may be located in either of said positions or in both, as may be .desired, the electric circuit being arranged as will be Lmderstood by electricians to accommodate any of such arrangements.

In fact my invention contemplates various manifestations produced as a result of closing an electric circuit, and one or any number of these manifestations may take place separately or simultaneously, and the result may be produced by pressing one or more calling buttons or a but- --ton or buttons otherwise'arranged to close such circuit.

I claim:

1. A toy telephone including a base member, a post member for the bracket of a telephone hand set secured to and rising from the base, .one of said members having a chamber for a .battery cell, a non-rotatable simulation of a Zcalli'ng device-mounted on the base, means op- I signal push buttons.

and rising from the base, a simulation device mounted on the base and including a noning device said push buttons erated by the simulation of the calling device for controlling an electric circuit, and signal means in said circuit rendered operable upon the closing of the electric circuit.

2. A toy telephone including a base member, a post member for the bracket of a telephone hand set secured to and rising from the base, one of said members having a chamber for a battery cell, a non-rotatable simulation of a. calling device including a series of push buttons mounted on the base, means operated by any one of said push buttons for controlling an electric circuit, and signal means insaid circuit rendered operable upon operation of any one of said push buttons.

3. A toy telephone including a base, a post for the bracket of a telephone hand set secured to and rising from the base, a non-rotatable simulation of a calling device mounted on the base and including a series of push buttons, and means rendered operable as a result. of the operation of any one of said push buttons.

4. A toy telephone including a base, a post for the bracket of a telephone hand set secured to and rising from the base, a non-rotatable drum' 5. A toy telephone including a base, a post for T the bracket of a telephone hand set securedto and rising from the base, a non-rotatable simulation of a calling device including a number of push buttons mounted on said'base, and a bell sounded by the operation of any one of said 6. A toy telephone including a base, a post for the bracket of a telephone handset secured to and rising from the base, a simulation of a calling device including a non-rotatable mounted on the base,-a circular series of push buttons movably mounted in the drum, and a bell mounted in the chamber beneath and operated by any one of said push V 7. A toy telephone including a base, the bracket of a telephone hand set the drum buttons.

secured to of a calling rotatable drum with a circular series of push ed Within said drum, an electric circuit includcontact and a plurality of cooperating movable contacts with a movable contact associated with each push button.

8. A toy telephone including a base, a post for the bracket of a telephone hand set secured to and rising from the base, a simulation of a callmounted on said base and a circular series of push buttons movably mounted in said drum, an electric lamp mounted in said post, an electric circuit including said lamp under the control of and a switch in the circuit in-rcludin g a fixed contact and a plurality, of cooperating movable contacts with a movable contact associated with each push button.

9. A toy telephone including a base, apost for the bracket of a telephone hand set secured to and rising from the base, a simulation of a calling device including a non-rotatable drum .mounted on the base and a number of push buttons mounted therein, a grid having arms each operated by a push button, and an electric drum T including a non-rotatable drum a post for :1120

buttons mounted therein, an electric lamp mount- 1 circuit arranged to be closed by the operation of any one of said pus 10. A toy telephone for the bracket of a telep to and rising from the b calling device including a mounted on the base and tons mounted in the d telephone and an elec and a bell in th an electric conta plurality of radial including a base, a post hone hand set secured ase, a simulation of a non-rotatable drum a series of push buta battery cell in the trio circuit with a lamp t, the bell constituting ct and a grid circuit having a arms with each ar 

